Clothes holder for clotheslines



Jan. 8', 1924. 1,480,249

, J. EDWARDS CLOTHES HOLDER FOR GLOTHESLINES Filed May 21. 1923 R v 3 1. INVENTOR.

i By Lhflz'elHu/wds Q n I ATTORNEY.

= coiled spring,

Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES JANIE EDWARDS, OF

CARDIN, OKLAHOMA.

CLOTHES mama nor. cno'rrtnstiivns.

Application filed May 21,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JANLE EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cardin, in the county of Ottawa and State of Oklahoma, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Holders for Clotheslines, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings. i

This invention relates to'articles in the nature of clothes pins for holding clothes on lines, and the general object of the'in vention is to provide a device of this character which is very simple, which may be readily shifted along the line to any desired point, and which is so constructed that a plurality of articles may be clamped and supported upon the clothes line.

It further object is to provide a device of this character which is so constructed thatit may be used either for a articles of for one article.

A still further object is to provide a de-- vice of this character in which there is a between the coils of which the articles may be clamped, means being provided whereby the coils of the spring may be closed or compressed or whereby they may be expanded to suit the coils of the spring plurality of to articles of different thicknesses'and to clamp thereon.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation showing my improved clothes holders applied to a clothes line;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through one of the clothes holders;

Figure 3 is a like view to Figure 2 but showing the springsand the member 15 in section.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that my device comprises the opposi ely disposed approximately parallel plates 10 and 11. These plates will ordinarily have a thickness of a quarter of an inch, though this is not essential, and each plate is formed with an opening, the opening in the plate 10 being designated 12 and that in the plate 11 being designated 13. The plate 10 has extending through it the line passage 14:, this passage being tangential to a circle described upon the center of the opening 12 and this passage opens at its opposite ends 1923. Serial No. 640,495.

upon the circumferential face of the plate. The plate 11 has the central passage 13 but does not have the passage 14and the opening 13 in the plate 11 is less in diameter than the opening 12 in the plate 10.

Inserted through'the opening 12 of plate I 10 is a hollow tubular member 15 having a head 16 at one end, this headjhaving a larger diameter than the opening 12. The member 15 is interiorly screw-threaded, as at 17. Inserted through the opening 13 is a cylindrical member '18 whose exterior is screw-threaded to engage the screw-threads 17. The member 18 is provided with a relativ'ely small neck 19 and with a head 20,

this head 20 mg 19. v

Wrapped a number of times around this neck 19 is one end of a coiled wire spring 21 which is coiled in relatively large convolubeing larger than the opentions around the exterior of member 15,'the

press theconvolutions of the spring 21, and

vice versa when the members are turned in the opposite directions they will separate,

carrying with them the plates 10 and 11, and this will permit the opening out of the coiled spring. It will :be'obvious' thatif any garment is placed between two of the convolutions of the spring and the members 15 and 18 are screwed together .that the spring will be -closed and the convolutions forced against eachother, and asa conse quence the garmentlwill be gripped between two convolutions. The spring may be coiled any number-of times around the-members i 15 and 18 so that a plurality of garments clothes line is passed through the passage 14 and thus it will be seen t at my device,

if mounted upon the clothes line, may be readily shifted from one end tothe other IOU the clothes, and the device as a clothes holder is particularly valuable for the reason that it will hold the clothes 'on the line withno chance for the clothes to blow away.

Ordinary clothes pins will not hold clothes on clothes lines in strong winds."

While IQh-ave illustrated, certain details of construction and, arrangement of. parts which I believe'to be particularlyeffective, I dofno t wishto be limited thereto as'it is obvi us that might be made in these "details 'Without'dep'arting from the spirit of the invention.

1. A garment holder for clothes lines comprising two telescopically engaging members, a helical spring loosely surrounding isaid", members, between the" convolu tions of which the clothes are'adapted to be clamped,"means on"the ends of the members againstwhich the ends of the spring bear, and means 5 for holding said members adj'usted nearer to or further from each other;

2;"A', clothes holder of the'character described comprising two oppositely disposed plates, a" helical spring 1 disposed. between said plates and having a: plurality of convolutions, and means whereby said plates may be'fforce'd toward or from each other to thereby compress or expand the coils of the spring, the springfbeing adapted to grip v the clothes between the convolutions of the spring I 3. A device of the character described comprising opposed plates, members mounted in said plates, one of said members bein r hollow and' interiorly= screw-threaded an the other member having exterior screwthreads Ito engage with the first named screw threads, the last named member being rotatable" itspla'te whereby the, plates may be forced toward or, from each other, and a helical spring having coils larger than the members and-disposed between said plates, the construction permitting the plates to be 'forcedtoward'or fromba'chother and the" convolutions of the spring thus contra'ctedor expanded:

at. A garment holding device of the character described comprising: opposed plates, each of said plates having an opening and one ofthe plates having means whereby it may be slidingly engaged with a clothes line, members each passing through an opening n the plate and] being rotatable therein, one of said members havlng' ntef rior screw-threads and'the other having ,interengaging exterior screw-threads, and a.

helical spring having relatively large con volutions surrounding the members and dis-'1 posed between said plates, theends of the I spring being operatively secured to said members. v H

5. A device of tlecharacter described comprising approximately parallel plates,

each plate having an opening andone of the 1 plates'having a passage extendingtangem tial to a circle whose centeris said opening and adapted to receive a clothes line, a member having a head at one end and inserted through the opening in the plate, said mem; her being hollow and being interiorly screwthreaded, a second member exteriorly' screwthreaded and adapted to be inserted, in the first named member and having screw head disposed beyon other end of the springbeing connected to the other member. V g

6, A garment holder for clothes lines comprising a helicalspring, between the coils of which the garments 'are adapted to be placed, and means operatively supported.

in conjunction with thecoil for compress-v;

permitting the expansion ing the coil or thereof.

Ii -testimony whereofl hereunto afliii my signature.

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